August, 2007 archive

Xylio has updated FutureDecks Pro DJ mixing software for MacOSX and Windows to version 1.0.5.
Features:

classic DJ setup with 2 decks, pro mixer and playlists
fully manual or automatic mixing (one-click beat-matching)
seamless intelligent looping and “skipbeat”
automatic BPM detection (grid like) with batch-mode function
vinyl simulation including scratch, pitch, reverse play, brake
separate headphones output and song pre-listening
support for VST [...]

Software manufacturers continue adding support for the AlphaTrack DAW controller from Frontier Design Group. Now you can use AlphaTrack with Mackie’s Tracktion 3 and with Cakewalk’s Guitar Tracks Pro 3.
With AlphaTrack’s touch-sensitive jog/shuttle strip, LCD display, three touch-sensitive encoder knobs, standard transport buttons, user-definable buttons, and 100mm touch-sensitive fader, you have everything you need right [...]

BandmateLoops has introduced three new Sounds Like Drums Universal Virtual Instruments.
SLD DW Hip Hop RnB Kit, SLD Rogers Brush Kit and SLD Rogers Reggae Kit are designed to capture the subtleties and power of live drumming. Each kit utilizes a one-hundred percent analog recording process. Instrument formats include Mac and PC versions of Kontakt 2, [...]

TriTone Digital has announced the releases of two new plug-ins for Mac OS X: ClassicTone-56 and PulTone-FL.

ClassicTone-56 is a recreation of one of the best sounding graphic EQs ever made. These graphic EQs are found in consoles and lunch boxes around the world and are prized for their punchiness and girth.

Puremagnetik has released Mutations, a collection of over 100 racks specifically designed for Ableton’s Operator Synth.
Programmed by some of Ableton’s own sound designers exclusively for Puremagnetik, Mutations fully explores the sonic possibilities of Ableton’s Rack format and FM synthesis. Best of all…. it’s free!

Audio Damage has released Liquid, an analog-style through-zero flanger. Liquid models the original flanging method, where two tape machines were used to create artificial double-tracking effects.
Perfect for “stereo-izing” monophonic signals like voice and vintage analog synths, Liquid is designed to provide mind-bending flanging at higher feedback settings.
Features:

True through-zero flanging
Perfect for “stereo-izing” analog synths, electric pianos, [...]

Scratch Loops 1 is the latest download collection from Loopmasters, featuring over 150 scratch loops from New York’s DJ Shiftee.
The youngest ever DMC Mix champion at the age of 17, DJ Shiftee has placed in the world famous finals on two other occasions. He also spins with the Lo-Lives crew alongside members of the X-ecutioners [...]

Start saving your money – Dave Smith Instruments has announced that it’s now shipping the new Prophet 08 monster analog synth.
The Prophet ‘08 is an eight-voice synthesizer with a 100% analog signal path. While the Prophet ’08’s overall sonic character will be familiar to anyone who knows Dave’s work from the ’70s and ’80s, [...]

 

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Edge of Human is the latest release by Bekki Williams. It’s on UK’s AD Music label, which focuses on melodic electronic music, and is also home to David Wright, Robert Fox, Code Indigo, Richard Bone and others. Edge of Human, previously known as Monolith, is Williams’ fourth studio album, though it was originally [...]

The Chemical Brothers are back with a new release, We Are The Night, and we’ve got it in heavy rotation.
If you’re into big beats and classic analog synth grooves, The Chemical Brothers deliver with We Are The Night. It’s a quirky album that manages to be sonically experimental within a dance-friendly rhythmic framework.
The CD kicks [...]